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How to hide and display tiers in CLAN


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Hiding and Displaying Tiers You may wish to hide some of the tiers in your transcript. This is very easy to do, and it is equally easy to make them visible again. To hide a tier: In the CLAN menu bar, select Mode>Hide tiers (alternatively use the shortcut Esc-4) At the bottom of the screen

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How to export to ELAN in CLAN


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Exporting to ELAN You may want to make the transcript available to be used in ELAN, which allows for other types of data treatment, as well as a different overview (in a partitur type editor). Here’s how you do it: Open the Commands window. Type chat2elan File in > select the required file > Done

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How to work with gesture annotation in CLAN


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Thumbnails: Working with Gesture Annotation CLAN thumbnail files for multimodal transcription. Transcripts that include annotations of social actions that are not encoded in the verbal modality can be both difficult to produce, and incredibly challenging to read. Eye-gaze, gestures, posture-shifts, features oriented to in the local environment etc may all be relevant to the unfolding

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How to embed still images in CLAN


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Embedding Still Images You may want to add still images to your transcript, for example screenshots of documents the participants are referring to in the talk, or a screenshot of the intonation contours. These will then appear when you reach the selected point in the transcript. This is how: Make sure you are not in

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How to use Timedur in CLAN


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Timedur(ation) TIMEDUR is an analytic tool in CLAN that allows researchers to display how much time each participant speaks during an interaction, as well as the total length of pauses between speaker turns, and the amount of time participants speak in overlap with one another. This may, for example, be important for charting a general

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How to use piping in CLAN


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Piping PIPING in CLAN refers to the facility for directing the output from one analytic tool (for example COMBO or GEM) to another tool for a second analysis. The output from the combined analyses is then collated into a single output file. For example, should you have annotated a batch of transcripts with a particular

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How to count GEMS in CLAN


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Counting GEMs If you wish to know how many of each GEM you have in your files, you can use the freq command. This is what you do: Open the Command window Type freq File in> select the file or files you wish to analyze Tier > Include @BG: Done Tier > exclude speaker tiers

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How to make collections (GEMS) in CLAN


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Making Collections: GEMs You may want to organize certain sequences in your data into a collection of instances of a particular phenomenon or feature of interest, and to subsequently export all of these instances into a single file. To make a collection: In the CLAN file, locate the sequence that you want to add to

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